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  2. Lynching in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Lynching was the widespread occurrence of extrajudicial killings which began in the United States' pre–Civil War South in the 1830s, slowed during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued until 1981.

  3. List of lynching victims in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Nearly 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968. [1] Most lynchings were of African-American men in the Southern United States, but women were also lynched. More than 73 percent of lynchings in the post–Civil War period occurred in the Southern states. [2]

  4. Emmett Till - Wikipedia

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    In 1989, Till was included among the 40 names of people who had died in the Civil Rights Movement; they are listed as martyrs on the granite sculpture of the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. [181] [182] A demonstration for Till was held in 2000 in Selma, Alabama, on the 35th anniversary of the march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge ...

  5. Lynching - Wikipedia

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    2.1.1 Anti-lynching legislation and the civil rights movement. ... According to a Human Rights Watch report from 2001: During ... when seven people were lynched ...

  6. Lynching of women in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The role of white women as perpetrators of lynching is also understudied. [1] Between 1865 and 1965, of around 5,000 Black lynching victims, between 120 and 200 Black women and girls were lynched, or around 3% to 4% of all victims. [2] A small number of women lynching victims were white, some of whom were lynched for associating with African ...

  7. Category:Lynching in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to lynching in the United States, the widespread occurrence of extrajudicial killings which began in the United States' pre–Civil War South in the 1830s and ended during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

  8. Black History/White Lies: The 10 biggest myths about the ...

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    Depending on which whitewashed version of history you learned, the modern Civil Rights Movement either began in the late 1940s or the 1950s, when Black people all across the country suddenly ...

  9. Red Summer - Wikipedia

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    Philip Randolph, a civil rights activist and leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, publicly defended the right of black people to self-defense. [ 1 ] In addition, Haynes reported that between January 1 and September 14, 1919, white mobs lynched at least 43 African Americans, with 16 hanged and others shot; and another 8 men were ...